2.4 Pwn's Tanky Blood Magic Fireball Berserker 7k Life 30k GMP

For the majority of the content in the game, I simply Leap Slam into a pack or boss to get Fortify, cast Enduring Cry, and then face tank Fireball DPS everything until it dies. If my life dips down I hit a life flask or recast Enduring Cry. If I take a really big hit and am actually in danger of dying, I just Leap Slam away and off screen with my Fireballs until everything is dead. This build is capable of tanking a significant amount of damage including face tanking Uber Izaro but can also be played as a kite and ranged DPS.

My current stats:
7.2k Life
500 life regeneration per second
32k tooltip GMP Fireball DPS without Anger
Don't be fooled by the lowish tooltip damage, Fireball explosions can overlap for a pseudo-shotgun effect and the area damage MORE multiplier from Conc Effect isn't shown on the tooltip. This easily translates to well over 150k DPS for big packs or if a boss is pinned against a wall.

Possible Stats:
Probably can reach 7.4-7.5k Life
45k tooltip GMP Fireball DPS achievable

For our Ascendancy we choose Berserker!

Pain Reaver - Easy access to life steal which is normally difficult to obtain for elemental damage.

War Bringer - We use this to reduce the cooldown of Enduring Cry to 2 seconds. This allows us to have essentially unlimited uptime for Immortal Call when around large packs of enemies. 6 endurance charges + Inc Duration on Immortal Call gives us physical immunity for roughly 5 seconds. When Immortal Call hasn't been triggered, the 6 endurance charges provide a good amount of damage mitigation. As an added benefit, using Enduring Cry also acts as an instant 25% HP flask that refills every 2 seconds! With my current life pool of 7.2k it amount to an instant 1.8k heal. This makes traps in Merciless/Uber lab incredibly easy and is a free "Oh Shit" button.

Crave the Slaughter - This doesn't really benefit us too much but does help a little for quality of life. This allows us to get faster clear speed and also increases the speed for our Leap Slam.

Aspect of Carnage - 40% MORE DAMAGE. DUH!

These are the required uniques for this build


Kaom's Roots are optional but give a lot of HP if you can meet resist caps without them.

Running both Kaom's Heart and Kaom's Roots makes us a bit starved for gem slots but we can manage.

Helmet: Leap Slam - Fortify - Faster Attack - Enduring Cry
Gloves: Winds of Change - CWDT - Immortal Call - Inc Duration - Lightning Golem
Pledge of Hands: Fireball - GMP - Conc Effect - Fire Pen - Faster Cast - Controlled Destruction
Essence Worm: Purity of Fire / Anger

Note that we use a max level CWDT, we have a big life pool and can afford to take the hits to trigger bigger spells.
Essence Worm boosts the level of Aura gems by 2, using a level 21 Purity of Fire in an Essence Worm gives us +5% max fire resist.
Essence Worm also makes slotted gems reserve ZERO mana, this is great because it means we don't need to reserve any life AND we can use a "Clear Mind" jewel for an additional 60% spell damage.
Purity of Fire can be swapped for Anger for even more damage, although I typically just leave on PoF for extra safety against elemental reflect.

This build has access to 5 Jewel slots in the tree.

Rolling Flames -> Left of Templar start with stray Intelligence node to hit the 50 INT requirement.
Rolling Flames -> Top of Witch start
Fluid Motion -> Between Templar and Marauder starts, this is picked up to meet the high DEX requirement for GMP

There are 2 other Jewel slots available in the tree and I highly recommend using Clear Mind in one of them. You can also use rare jewels that have %life, cast speed, fire damage.